Hotel Bellevue starts from the idea of a border tree. Border trees were once planted as a kind of guardian, a marker used by legal authorities to outline the area where they could wield their power, a tool to settle border conflicts. Hotel Bellevue is an exhibition and a book. It’s a manifesto for love, anger, desire to connect, speculate and study. Only things from the heart deliver.
When you think about these trees, you discuss territories, politics, crisis, botanical species, animals ,... because talking about these trees is not only talking about wood. The natural world is not following manmade islands. Fungi are having an enormous network beyond any kind of border (wood wide web), pollinators work where ever they find a flower to take pollen from, birds migrate around the globe using it as a whole, not as a (flexible) puzzle of fragments. In a changing and unstable climate, the idea of border trees give us the opportunity to reintroduce this local and community driven use of the landscape and learn from the stories and information that gets triggered by this landmark.
When you think about these trees, you discuss territories, politics, crisis, botanical species, animals ,... because talking about these trees is not only talking about wood. The natural world is not following manmade islands. Fungi are having an enormous network beyond any kind of border (wood wide web), pollinators work where ever they find a flower to take pollen from, birds migrate around the globe using it as a whole, not as a (flexible) puzzle of fragments. In a changing and unstable climate, the idea of border trees give us the opportunity to reintroduce this local and community driven use of the landscape and learn from the stories and information that gets triggered by this landmark.
DMW Gallery Antwerp, Belgium
soloshow No Road to Hotel Bellevue
October 15, 2020 - January 9, 2021
Coversation with Subbacultcha
Conversation with Els Roelandt in HART 217
Conversation with Nicky Aerts, KLARA Pompidou
Podcast matter about bordertrees on Radio Level Five
No Road to Hotel Bellevue is a total installation fabulating a natural world in which all artworks are interwoven as organisms unable to untangle. This coming together originates in the in-between space, the speculative space.
soloshow No Road to Hotel Bellevue
October 15, 2020 - January 9, 2021
Coversation with Subbacultcha
Conversation with Els Roelandt in HART 217
Conversation with Nicky Aerts, KLARA Pompidou
Podcast matter about bordertrees on Radio Level Five
No Road to Hotel Bellevue is a total installation fabulating a natural world in which all artworks are interwoven as organisms unable to untangle. This coming together originates in the in-between space, the speculative space.
Trees have been evolving for 370 million years. Improving themselves, getting smarter. Yet these botanical academics stand matchless against the two-legged flag wavers. Every year we cut down minimum 15 billion trees. Half of the rainforest is already gone. Half of the earth's fertile land has become farmland. That land is divided into rectangular planes next to each other, becoming a pixelated field.
DMW Gallery Antwerp, Belgium, soloshow No Road to Hotel Bellevue
‘Our companion, our other’ is a two-person exhibition of Dries Segers and Suzanna Zak, whose practices use different photographic processes to explore animals, organisms and environments in relation to humans interaction with them.
This exibition includes works as FUNGI, Handsculptures, Dear God and the Red Cat, Fossil gas and the Parrots & The Death, the Wolf & the Bird.
This exibition includes works as FUNGI, Handsculptures, Dear God and the Red Cat, Fossil gas and the Parrots & The Death, the Wolf & the Bird.
VITRINE Gallery Basel
Curator: William Noel Clarke
Vogesenplatz, 4056 Basel
Switzerland
28 February - 17 july 2020
Curator: William Noel Clarke
Vogesenplatz, 4056 Basel
Switzerland
28 February - 17 july 2020